Hey guys... I started a thread in the tech section but haven't gotten a lot of responses. I'm looking to to increase oil capacity for my adventure Husa. I'm sort of intrigued by the frame job solution by Cyrus Anderson, and I found a motorcycle frame guy who said he would do it. But someone else suggested an oil cooler, then someone else on the thread I started said that my oil can be undercooled to negative effect.
What do you guys think?

I like the heated riding gear idea. Keep us posted about how that works out please. I've been considering that, and I found a suit that only used 65 watts on the high setting, then I lost the link. I'll check out the Gerbings.

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The Gerbings jacket liner is listed at 77 watts, but with the jacket under my armor directly compressed against my skin it's only been needed to run it at 5-25% on the controller so far. I haven't tested the draw with my amp clamp, but I'd imagine it's not pulling anywhere near 77 watts at these low settings.

Warm and comfy without needing to bulk up with layers works for me.

I've PM'd Cyrus a while back about his oil mod, never heard back from him...

After my last Baja run with 2800 miles on the oil, the analysis came back OK once again except for my high levels of lead caused by running a tank of race fuel and questionable mexican gasoline.

It wouldn't take much additional oil in the Husa's to have safe 3000 mile intervals between changes I believe.

The Gerbings jacket liner is listed at 77 watts, but with the jacket under my armor directly compressed against my skin it's only been needed to run it at 5-25% on the controller so far. I haven't tested the draw with my amp clamp, but I'd imagine it's not pulling anywhere near 77 watts at these low settings.

Warm and comfy without needing to bulk up with layers works for me.

I've PM'd Cyrus a while back about his oil mod, never heard back from him...

After my last Baja run with 2800 miles on the oil, the analysis came back OK once again except for my high levels of lead caused by running a tank of race fuel and questionable mexican gasoline.

It wouldn't take much additional oil in the Husa's to have safe 3000 mile intervals between changes I believe.

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Thanks for doing those oil analysis tests by the way. I've just extended my mileage between oil changes based on your data. I'm running Motorex as recommended by Husaberg. I'd been changing it at 1200 miles, but I just went 2000 based on your data. I didn't have it tested, but no debris period in the screens or in the filter which I cut open and checked. The magnet had the normal grey powder on it, but nothing else. I think I'll run a little further on the oil, the stuff aint cheap these days.

nice!! Like... a liter of extra capacity? Cuz that's what I'm looking for. In something you can put in a UPS box and sell to me? Because I'm likely not handy enough to work it all out on my own

What do you guys think of the frame thing? What sort of things could go wrong with this situation? Will I be able to "drain" the frame when I go to change my oil? I think it's a gorgeous idea, but I'm not mechanic, and so I don't fully understand what the cons are so to say.

In other news, I haven't yet decided on my luggage options. I wrote Wolfman asking what the closest rack would be to the Husa for the Expedition Dry Saddlebag, as it seemed like a more elegant solution than the Rolies... you can pack a bigger bag, and be less fussy with clips and straps which gets tedious when you have to do it weeks on end... and they told me they sell rack components which fit perfectly into their clips! So I will order those and have a rack made for the bike. I think I could make it myself out of PVC piping too, but first I will check the price on what a welder would want to do a nice job.

What oil are you running to get that mileage? Looked back but couldn't find anything. I am using Rotella T right now. I am thinking it will be easy to find oil to change when out on the road since it is available from auto parts stores. I have a Blackstone Lab oil thingy that I was going to use for my truck but I may have to use this one for my bike to check out how Rotella performs.

where there's a will there must be a way. i was thinking of tapping into the oil circuit with two oil lines with the appropriate banjo bolts and just bolt up to an in line oil cooler like below.

this could just be mounted to the frame but to get any decent capacity you need the 14 inch long one and she won't fit. there's a smaller one that would be easier to squeeze in but it wouldn't hold much extra oil.

What oil are you running to get that mileage? Looked back but couldn't find anything. I am using Rotella T right now. I am thinking it will be easy to find oil to change when out on the road since it is available from auto parts stores. I have a Blackstone Lab oil thingy that I was going to use for my truck but I may have to use this one for my bike to check out how Rotella performs.

Had a fair few questions this year about the oil cooler prototype from Terry Brown that Terry and I were running in Siberia this year ... the round cylindrical thing where the oil filter cap normally lives.

Well the legendary Stephan Scheffelmeier is now set to begin producing a batch, improved and refined from the prototypes we had, to his normal fantasy quality and will kick start the CNC machine for it once there are an initial 20 takers.

In return for being one of the initial 20, he is offering a 20% discount, for a price of 114.24 EUR.

The oil cooler adds a couple hundred ccs to your oil capacity (2.5 litres) and by both increasing oil volume and by proving a finned cooling chamber to reduce the temperature of the oil, the level of protection for the engine is significantly enhanced. One of the few causes of failures on this engine under rallying conditions was losing the main bearings, due to the oil being too hot under extreme conditions and being behind bashplates that cut off any airflow to the bottom of the engine. Increasing the volume also increases the service life of the oil, meaning cleaner, better lubricating oil at any given amount of mileage.

For me personally, fitting some sort of oil cooler has been a goal for several years, both to increase capacity and cool the oil. But there was never an easy or economical way to do it ... until Terry hit upon his simple solution. Rather than 500-600 EUR for an oil radiator,plus plumbing, plus finding some way to tap into the oil circuit twice, this simple easy solution has done exactly what I wanted something to do ... offer both cooling and extra capacity for the oil that is simple to fit and use and is very affordable (much cheaper than I thought it would turn out to be). To get it manufactured with scheffelmeiers quality is the icing on the cake.

So can we have a show of hands .... and when we get to 20 I will tell Stephan to fire up the CNC machine.

Well, my travel plans were modified by my riding buddy who was going to ride to Inivuk with me next summer. I was prepping pretty hard and looking at routes including the Canol trail. Then, the guy I was supposed to ride with got himself incarcerated. I hate to say it, but I didn't see that one coming. Well, now I have the time off and the direction still seems to be right for me, I think I might just go it alone.

Has anyone on here ridden north through that country and can you give me some ideas and directions to desolate country and good trails?

Personally, I wouldn't ride the Husaberg up there, it's a long ways and there's only 1 or 2 roads you can take to get there and they are all paved (minus construction). I rode to the Arctic Circle in the Yukon a few years back and found very few places to get off the beaten path, let alone on a lightweight ADV bike compared to the lower 48 IMHO. 1 paved road a thousand miles...
I'm not a local though and that's why should ask them if your determined to ride the Husa way up north.

As for desolate country and good trails, the Tour of Idaho takes you through the Lo Lo motorway and is the most remote, continuous National Forest land in the lower 48, connect that ride with the Continental Divide Trail and you have some of the best of the best scenic riding in NA, IMHO of course.
Then there's the Oregon or the Washington Backcountry Discovery Route and the Trans America Trail too... Or just pick any state west of the rockies and wander with the best plan of them all for solo riding - no plan. Lots of tracks on gpsexchange.com and a few on my website too.

I would suggest posting these questions in either Trip Planning forum, or in the correct Regional forums, you should get a wider audience there.

I really like that Idaho suggestion, and it's one I've considered before. I know Inivuk is kind of boring, but I want to do a lot longer legged journey and 1200-1500 miles have already been done by me numerous times, so it seemed like a good direction. I'm not that locked into Inivuk, so maybe Idaho with a round trip back through Washington and Oregon.

For me it's gotta be the Husaberg, because I've got nothing else to ride. I'm sure it will be fine. I'll pack enough spares that without a catastrophic engine failure I should be able to keep it going, and If not, I'll always think it should have worked that way.